BANGKOK (AP) — Washington and Beijing have signed a trade agreement that will make it easier for American firms to obtain magnets and rare earth minerals from China that are critical to manufacturing and microchip production, U.S.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring…

Talks between the U.S. and China kicked off in London, with the U.S. signaling a willingness to remove restrictions on exports in exchange for assurances that China is easing limits on rare earth shipments. The…

President Donald Trump spoke by phone to China’s Xi Jinping Thursday in a bid to ease the trade war he started by slapping massive tariffs on products imported from the world’s biggest manufacturing powerhouse. There…

Several years ago, a colleague teaching at Miami University, a large state school in Ohio, kindly invited me to give a talk there. After picking me up at the airport, he suggested that we have…

BEIJING (AP) — A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to local emergency management authorities. Another six people were…

Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs — and by Mr. Trump’s own hand.  Witness the agreement Monday morning to scale back his punitive…

U.S. President Donald Trump floated an 80% tariff on China ahead of negotiations due to begin Saturday as he urged Beijing to do more to open their markets to U.S. goods. “80% Tariff on China…

Beijing reiterated its call for the U.S. to cancel unilateral tariffs on China, underscoring a standoff between the world’s largest economies as they prepare for initial trade talks. The U.S. should be prepared to revoke…

Chinese journalist Gao Yu has been a thorn in the side of China’s authorities for decades. Jailed three times for her work — I covered one of those jailings, in the 1990s, as a foreign…